Intention Quotes
1516 quotes by 1109 authors
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A power struggle collapses when you withdraw your energy from it. Power struggles become uninteresting to you when you change your intention from winning to…
— Gary Zukav
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I have always struggled, with the sole intention of ceasing to struggle. Result: zero.
— Emile M. Cioran
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Even with the best intentions, growing apart might just be an inevitable part of growing up.
— Megan McCafferty
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My husband, Andrius, says that evil will rule until good men or women choose to act. I believe him. This testimony was written to create…
— Ruta Sepetys
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Teenage boys cannot be trusted. Their intentions are not pure.
— Rachel Cohn
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Bad decisions made with good intentions, are still bad decisions.
— James C. Collins
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Our proximity keeps us honest. Our intentions keep us strangers.
— Corey Taylor
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To make what fate intends for me my own intention
— Carl Jung
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Direction, not intention determines your destination.
— Andy Stanley
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Everything in modern city life is calculated to keep man from entering into himself and thinking about spiritual things. Even with the best of intentions…
— Thomas Merton
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No, they would not be happy to take my place at your side, cara mia, because I would promptly end their lives in a most…
— Christine Feehan
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Erin and I spent four hours shopping for dresses and shoes Tuesday night. She was going all out in her intention to make Chaz regret…
— Tammara Webber
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Time and distance have a way of playing tricks with your best intentions.
— Anthony Kiedis
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Never in her life – she could swear it from the bottom of her soul – had she ever intended to do wrong; yet these…
— Thomas Hardy
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In all the ills that befall us, we are more concerned by the intention than the result. A tile that falls off a roof may…
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Government has three primary functions. It should provide for military defense of the nation. It should enforce contracts between individuals. It should protect citizens from…
— Milton Friedman
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What? You run? Coward! Stand still and die!†Percy had no intention of doing that.
— Rick Riordan
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I believe that in judging our actions we are more severe than professional judges. We judge not only our actions, but our thoughts, our intentions,…
— Anais Nin
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I don't like people who speak or think in terms of gaining anybody's confidence. If one's actions are honest, one does not need the predated…
— Ayn Rand
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...she had always known under her mind and now she confessed it: her agony had been, half of it, because one day he would say…
— Ford Madox Ford
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